Weizmann Institute of Science
Institute of higher learning and research in
Rechovot,
Israel. Originally founded in 1934 by
Chaim Weizmann as the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, it was expanded and formally rededicated as the Weizmann Institute of Science (
machon Weizmann le-mad`a) on November 2, 1949. Following further expansion and the accreditation of a graduate school, it is now best described as a research university. It presently has about 2,500 students, staff, and faculty, and offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in
Mathematics,
Computer Science,
Physics,
Chemistry, and
Biology, as well as several interdisciplinary programs. Two of its Computer Science faculty, Amir Pnueli and cryptographer
Adi Shamir (of RSA fame), were awarded
Turing Prizess (regarded as the CS equivalent of the
Nobel Prize).